Is the Miserable Users list an appropriate form of mod discipline on CP?

click this if you don't know what the miserable users list is

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it is a setting that the mods can inflict upon a user where his connection to the board is impaired to the point where it takes ages for pages to load... if they load at all. you are still allowed to comment and interact with the board... if you are willing to wait lifetimes between page loads

Wikipedia, which we all know is the ultimate source for bulletin board debates, defines it as punishment which is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to it.

It seems as if the Miserable Users list is more of a toy for the mods to inflict punishment on errant posters, then say that the user was not "officially banned", as opposed to any sort of real effective means of discipline. More troubling is that it becomes public knowledge and it turns into a poster being in the stocks and everyone gets to throw rotting produce at him. Certainly humiliation... no?

I propose that the Miserable Users list is a form of cruel and unusual punishment and should be done away with. Posters should either receive full out bans or be left alone/ignored.

/this poll stems from the board is being all introspective and stuff
//yes, I know the US Constitution doesn't apply to CP rules
///none of this... I don't break rules so I don't give a **** what the mods do to people
////DAMMIT I LOVE FORWARD SLASHES
/////I'm asking the proletariat... mod votes don't count in this poll.

Last edited by pr_capone; 12-19-2013 at 01:37 AM..
Reason: because mods votes don't count in this poll

Since, you know, that's what our legal system was built on to deny "colored" people rights.

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Originally Posted by Direckshun

Okay...

I'm pretty sure that's not true, and I'm wondering how it would even affect what we're talking about if it were.

If your point is that you define race by skin color based on a legal system that denied "colored" people rights, then you are only talking about "black" people and "white" people. Whites were everyone not black as far as the law was concerned. An Example is a non-black hispanic is "white" according to our countries racial categories.

It is true that our legal system was white/black after slavery ended. All types of legislation popped up infringing on all peoples' rights after slavery. Who to marry, who can carry guns, what constitutes legal search and seizure. Almost every big case that eroded personal liberties and freedoms started because black people were given rights.

If your point is that you define race by skin color based on a legal system that denied "colored" people rights, then you are only talking about "black" people and "white" people. Whites were everyone not black as far as the law was concerned. An Example is a non-black hispanic is "white" according to our countries racial categories.

It is true that our legal system was white/black after slavery ended. All types of legislation popped up infringing on all peoples' rights after slavery. Who to marry, who can carry guns, what constitutes legal search and seizure. Almost every big case that eroded personal liberties and freedoms started because black people were given rights.

Take search and seizure laws. Not okay to search white people without a warrant, but can search a black guy without one. Upheld in court terry v Ohio. Now applied to everyone.

Another case about a black guy with a knife. He was arrested and was not protected by the 1st ammendment. 1st time ever.

How bout marriage laws? Any marriage laws before black people were granted their rights? Nope. But didn't stop laws on the books forbidding interracial marriages where cops would bust in on people trying to catch them in the act of sex.

You look at the history of eroded personal liberties, and it begins with racist assholes being scared of blacks.